Door-fastener.



A. L. LEE.

7 DOOR FASTBN'BR. APPLICATION-FILED 001217, 1907.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ARTHUR L. LEE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO GASTON LAGOMME, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

DOOR-FASTENER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 24, 1907. I

Application filed October 1'7. 1907. Serial No. 397,791.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARTHUR L. LEE, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York city, Brooklyn, county of Kings, State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Door-Fasteners, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a pocket door fastener of simpleconstruction which enables travelers and others to eifectively secure the door of their apartment against opening from Without.

In the accompanying drawing: Figure 1 is a face view of my improved door fastener; Fig. 2 a similar view, showing it in use,

. with the door and door-frame in section;

Fig. 3 an end view of the fastener, showing it closed; Fig. 4 a longitudinal section on line 44, Fig. 2, and Fig. 5 an enlarged cross section on line 55, Fig. 2.

- The base of a resilient triangular bail 10 is divided at the center'to form two axially opposed shanks 11, 12. Shank 11 is bent inward at its free end to form a lug 13, to which is pivoted by pin 14, a hook 15 having beak 16. Shank 12 has a rounded end to constitute a spring-catch 17 which enters a recess 18 of hook 15, and thus holds the latter in position.

In use, the hook with its beak pointing upward or downward is placed against the door-frame 19 or door 20, the door is closed and then the hook is turned at right angles, so that beak 16 will enter frame 19. The

device being thus locked to the door-frame, the door cannot be opened as the shank 11 extends partly across the same, (Fig. 2). To release the door, the fastener is turned back until beak 16 becomes disengaged from frame 19, when the device may be readily withdrawn.

If the fastener is to be carried in the pocket, hook 15 is swung into bail 10, so that the length of the device is correspondingly re duced. As hook 15 is disconnected from shank 1 2, a clearance between these two parts may be readily formed for the purpose of utilizing the bail as a key-ring.

I claim:

1. In a door fastener, a resilient bail having a pair of axially opposed shanks, combined with a hook pivoted to one of said shanks and engaged by the other shank, substantially as specified.

2. In a door fastener, a resilient triangular bail having a pair of axially opposed shanks,

of which one terminates in a lug and the other terminates in a catch, combined with a hook pivoted to the lug and having a recess adapted to be engaged by the catch, substantially as specified.

Signed by me at New York city, (Manhattan.) N. Y., this 16th day of October,

ARTHUR L. LEE. Witnesses:

W. R. SGHULZ, GASTON IJACOMME. 

